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Chapter Thirty-Eight: She Bled For Me

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Thorne's POV

The palace was cloaked in silence. Night had fallen hard, pressing its chill fingers through the stone walls. Outside, the wind howled like a mourning beast. Inside, the lanterns flickered in the draft, casting nervous shadows along the hall.

I was kneeling. My legs ached beneath me, blood sluggish in my limbs. Omaru and Nikolai stood at either side, close enough to strike if I so much as flinched. The bruise on my lip pulsed, hot and sharp – an ugly souvenir from earlier. The pain had teeth. It bit deeper with every breath I took.

I was weak. Starved. Splintered.

But I was still here. Before the throne of the ruthless king of Varkhaal. Darius. And before most of his pack.

She knelt ahead of me. Shanura. Head bowed. Her hair hung like a tangled veil across her face like she didn’t want the court to see her, but didn’t care enough to hide.

Darius’s voice shattered the quiet.

“State your offense before the throne.”

“I interfered in the blood pit and saved him,” she sa
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